Frustrated by an inability to secure megafights with Manny Pacquiao and Juan Manuel Marquez, Australia's WBO interim lightweight boxing world champion Michael Katsidis has thrown out a challenge to one of his former conquerors Juan Diaz for a March 27 rematch. More

Vic  Darchinyan makes his next defence of his super-flyweight world titles against Mexican Rodrigo Guerrero but it’s Filipino Nonito Donaire he really wants.
To defend his WBA and WBC world title belts, Darchinyan will mix up his training regimen to try to improve his already brutal punching power.
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Expect Paul 'Hurricane' Briggs to have a warm-up fight on the Gold Coast before his expected clash with world champion Danny Green.

Briggs this week announced that he was stepping back in the ring, ending a three-year retirement. He won't say who he will fight but the speculation is that he and Green will clash soon.

Germany's Sebastian Sylvester retained his IBF middleweight world title  on Saturday when American challenger Billy Lyell retired in the 10th round. More

CHASING a fight with the great Manny Pacquiao, Aussie slugger Michael Katsidis is in line to face Pac victim Ricky Hatton in June. More

SOME people have short memories when it comes to some of the greatest moments in our rich boxing heritage. While the “Green Machine’s” sensational victory over Roy Jones in Sydney on December 2 was top shelf it’s not the greatest, according to Victoria's Mr Boxing Howard Leigh. More

  AUSSIE slugger Michael Katsidis, who dreams of fighting Manny Pacquiao, is losing faith that his bout with WBO lightweight world champion Juan Manual Marquez will ever take place. More

Former cruiserweight champion Vassiliy Jirov wants a shot at IBO champion Danny Green. Jirov (38-3, 32KOs) returned to the ring last October after a two-year layoff. More

Daniel Geale and his camp are plotting a course for a world title fight.

They hope the strategy will take him all the way to an IBF world middleweight title fight against Germany's Sebastian Sylvester.

Although Geale's next bout has not been locked in yet, the former IBO world middleweight champion's management is in discussions with the likes of IBF No. 6 Mathew Macklin, of England, and former undisputed light middleweight champion, American Ronald "Winky" Wright.

FOR several years Michael Katsidis has been calling out Manny Pacquiao with many Australian experts believing he has a puncher’s chance against the Filipino wizard.

WBC/WBC super flyweight champion Vic Darchinyan's planned fight with Raul Martinez is off but Shaw still plans to have him appear in the March 6 co-feature slot to Arthur Abraham vs. Andre Dirrell on Showtime.
 Martinez made a demand of $100,000 dollars for the fight.  Shaw had offered $70,000, $5000 more than Martinez received for his knockout loss to Nonito Donaire last year.
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IBO cruiserweight world champion Danny Green hasn't given up hope of fighting Bernard Hopkins but, for now, the American superstar has opted to fight the Australian's last victim, Roy Jones Jr. More

Three-time world champion Anthony Mundine continued his five-year unbeaten run with a comfortable victory over Rob Medley in their non-world title fight at the Sydney Entertainment Centre on Monday night. More

Former South Sydney Rabbitoh Garth Wood has set up a showdown with Anthony Mundine after a stunning performance against Kenyan-born Kariz Kariuki in the final of reality television program The Contender. More

NORTH QUEENSLAND league star Carl Webb's professional boxing debut has ended in disappointment after he suffered a technical knockout to Sydney's Scott Lewis tonight. More

Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones last night welcomed the opportunity to host world championship boxing at the new Cowboys Stadium after Manny Pacquiao and Joshua Clottey's welterweight clash was confirmed for March 13 in Texas. More

Former NRL player Garth Wood is finally living out his boyhood sporting dream, but it's in a boxing ring rather than on the rugby league field.

Wood, 31, will fight Kenyan-born Kariz Kariuki in next Monday's final of the reality television boxing show, The Contender.

CARL Webb excelled at two sports as a teen. But he never agonised over which to pursue because the fight between boxing and rugby league simply wasn't fair. More

AFTER grabbing his passport and escaping Sydney Airport rather than return home to Kenya at the conclusion of the 2000 Olympics, Kariz Kariuki is on the verge of fulfilling a 10-year ambition to bring his daughter to Australia - if Monday night's The Contender final goes ahead on the undercard of the Anthony Mundine-Rob Medley bout.

The Pacquiao-Mayweather boxing match scheduled for March 13 is off according to Bob Arum, Pacquiao's promoter. More

The controversial Australian boxer Anthony Mundine is at it again.

"The Man" is reported to be passing up the chance to win another world title in his third different weight division by refusing to fight under the jurisdiction of the International Boxing Organisation.

Mundine is set to fight fellow Aussie Rob Medley next Monday night in Sydney.

Another day, another guy for Hayden Panettiere.

Wearing a neon pink string bikini, the "Heroes" star was spotted getting cozy poolside in Miami with boxing heavyweight champ Wladimir Klitschko.

WA's world champion Danny Green may have conquered the high seas as well Roy Jones jnr, but it seems he has an even bigger fight on his hands trying to wrangle a deal to bring Bernard Hopkins to Australia for another superfight.

DANNY Green's camp has blasted Roy Jones Jr's attempt to overturn the result of their Sydney showdown as a "cheap shot from a steroids cheat". More

The promotion company of veteran boxing champion Roy Jones Jr. has asked an Australian boxing commission to "disqualify" Danny Green and overturn the Aussie's surprising first-round TKO victory over Jones earlier this month. Jones' representatives point to alleged excessive use of wrapping tape and bandages on Green's hands.

In a letter to an official of the Combat Sports Industry in Sydney, John Wirt, the chief executive of Jones' Square Ring Promotions, wrote that the wraps "contain an adhesive (polyamide substrate with latex coating) that allows the wrapping to be stretched and secured tightly with a hardening effect (similar to an ACE bandage) in a way that is substantially different from the effect obtained by using traditional soft surgical-type gauze bandages."

The mega-fight between Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao is now in jeopardy after Golden Boy Promotions, on behalf of Mayweather Promotions, learned today that Manny Pacquiao is refusing to comply with Olympic style drug testing as outlined and mandated by the United States Anti Doping Agency (USADA) and as requested by Mayweather's management to ensure fair play and sportsmanship by both fighters More

AUSSIE slugger Michael Katsidis is still waiting to hear whether WBO lightweight super champion Juan Manuel Marquez will make a mandatory defence against him in the new year but he hasn’t lost sight of a dream bout with Manny Pacquiao.

ON THE eighth day, the god of boxing was tired, having spent his energy putting speed into the featherweight's feet, lightning into the fists of the middleweights, thunder into the colossal heavyweights and tenacity into the cruiserweight's soul …

But the creator of pugilsts had a dilemma, he had just enough clay and rock left over to mould a super-flyweight's frame but more than enough coal to fuel a heavyweight. With a mischievous laugh, he mixed it together and called his creation Vic Darchinyan, a demon who'd shock and awe fans and terrify those cursed to cross his path.

It might sound far-fetched, but that scenario would answer a number of questions that have buzzed in Darchinyan's head ever since he was a boy who believed he was a heavyweight trapped in too small a frame.

A BOXER from TV series The Contender has been arrested and charged with sexual assault.

Sonni Michael Angelo, better known as Jungle Boy on the Foxtel reality show, was charged with aggravated sexual assault and inflicting actual bodily harm on another person.

World champion boxer turned yachtie Danny Green has jokingly demanded 50-foot waves for his Sydney to Hobart debut.

IBO cruiserweight world titleholder Green returned on Thursday from the United States and is now looking forward to his next great sporting challenge, the Sydney to Hobart.

Vic Darchinyan is planning to knockout Filipino star Nonito Donaire on a huge Australian double-bill topped by Danny Green v Bernard Hopkins. More

Juan Manuel Marquez must defend his WBO lightweight title against interim-champion Michael Katsidis. If he tries to side-step Katsidis, he will get stripped and Katsidis will become the full champion. More

A PATCHED-UP Vic Darchinyan was thinking about revenge only moments after his emphatic knockout win over Mexican Tomas Rojas in Rancho Mirage, California yesterday.

It took Darchinyan just a tick under three minutes of the second round to flatten Rojas to defend his WBC and WBA super-flyweight belts.

`I want rematches," said Darchinyan, who was supported by a large contingent of Australians, including IBO world cruiserweight champion Danny Green.

Danny Green is focusing his attention on a fight with Bernard Hopkins. He retained the services of veteran promoter Gary Shaw, who is now advising Green and trying to make the fight happen. Hopkins has expressed interest in fighting Green, and depending on the money - he might accept an offer to take the fight in Australia.

"Gary is advising me and we're doing a plan. It's out of my control at the moment. It's up to Bernard on where he wants to go. If he wants it in Australia or he wants to do it here in America. Of course we have to agree to the terms. Hopefully we sign it and get the fight on. It make sense to do that fight. It's a natural progression. They were supposed to fight Jones. They overlooked me. Now he can scratch out Roy's name and put my name on the contract. It's the biggest and most lucrative fight out there," Green said.

Australia's Vic Darchinyan knocked out Mexico's Tomas Rojas in the second round to retain his World Boxing Council and World Boxing Association super flyweight titles in Rancho Mirage, California today and announced he would do the same to old rival Nonito Donaire. More

Vic Darchinyan will embark on a revenge mission after destroying Mexico's Tomas Rojas in the second round of their super flyweight world-title fight in California on Saturday. More

FORMER world champ Ricky Hatton says Manny Pacquiao is a great guy but fears that Floyd Mayweather has the style to beat him in their superfight next year. More

Kostya Tszyu's conqueror Ricky Hatton says he wants to fight again and not go out of boxing with the painful loss to Manny Pacquiao as his last fight. More

AFTER calling out Filipino great Manny Pacquiao, WBO interim lightweight world champion Michael Katsidis, a proud new dad, says he is close to fulfilling his dream of bringing a big fight to Australia. More

Sydney's major  newspaper, The Daily Telegraph, says Danny Green is now a star to rival Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather Jr following his first round KO of Roy Jones jr.
They have called it the greatest single performance by an Aussie fighter, better than those of Kostya Tszyu or Nedal Hussein decking the Pac Man.
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